xxviii, 444 pages ; 22 cm

Cheryl Clarke, Angela Davis, bell hooks, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker{u2014}from the pioneers of black women{u2019}s studies comes this collection of race and gender writings. Including Alice Walker{u2019}s groundbreaking elucidation of the term ?womanist,? discussions of women{u2019}s rights as human rights, and a piece on the Obama factor, the collection speaks to the ways that feminism has evolved and how black women have confronted racism within it

Includes bibliographical references

Black feminist statement / The Combahee RIver Collective -- Lesbianism : an act of resistance / Cheryl Clarke -- Womanist / Alice Walker -- Uses of anger : women responding to racism / Audre Lord -- Black women : shaping feminist theory / bell hooks -- African American women in defense of ourselves / Elsa Barkley Brown, Deborah K. King, and Barbara Ransby -- Black man's place in black feminist criticism / Michael Awkward -- Womanist theology : black women's experience as a source for doing theology, with special reference to Christology / Jacquelyn Grant -- But who do you really belong to : black studies or women's studies? / Barbara Christian -- Revisiting "what's in a name?" : exploring the contours of Africana womanist thought / Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd and Evelyn M. Simien -- Must I be a womanist? / Monica A. Coleman -- When fighting words are not enough : the gendered content of Afrocentrism / Patricia Hill Collins -- Last taboo / Paula Giddings -- Phallus(ies) of interpretation ; toward engendering the black critical "I" / Ann duCille -- Race, gender, and the prison industrial complex : California and beyond / Angela Y. Davis and Cassandra Shaylor -- "Don't let nobody bother you' principle" : the sexual economy of American slavery / Adrienne Davis -- Punks, bulldaggers, and welfare queens : the radical potential of queer politics? / Cathy J. Cohen -- AIDS the secret, silent, suffering shame / Evelynn M. Hammonds -- "What has happened here" : the politics of difference in women's history and feminist politics / Elsa Barkley Brown -- African feminist scholars in women's studies : negotiating spaces of dislocation and transformation in the study of women / Josephine Beoku-Betts and Wairimũ Ngarũiya Njambi -- Olympia's maid : reclaiming black female subjectivity / Lorraine O'Grady -- That the mothers may soar and the daughters may know their names : a retrospective of black feminist literary criticism / Farah Jasmine Griffin -- Mission statement / Black men for the eradication of sexism -- Resting in the gardens, battling in the deserts : black women's activism / Joy James -- Some of us did not die / June Jordan -- Racialized gender/gendered racism : reflections on black feminist human rights theorizing / Stanlie M. James -- "Con-di-fi-cation" : black women, leadership, and political power / Carole Boyce Davies -- Relevance of black feminist scholarship : a Caribbean perspective / Violet Eudine Barriteau -- On dolls, presidents, and little black girls / Cheryl A. Wall

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